So, as a follow up, almost 9 months after buying the iPad and after 8 months of it's 3G not working, I finally got Apple to replace it. How? I had an Apple-authorized 3rd party service center look at it. They confirmed the problems and sent to Apple for repair. But it didn't end there! Apple sent it back to them and said it was fine. Grrr.
BUT, armed with the 8 months of no-iPad-3G love AND with the fact that the Apple-authorized 3rd party service center agreed I had a problem I berated the tech support guy until he agreed to send me a new one no matter what the results of their diagnostics said. And he made good to his word; a new iPad showed up on my doorstep several days later.
With that ends the saga of the failed 3G on iPad that Apple would not admit was a problem.
Now here's the sad, sad irony and how I still feel that Apple got the last laugh on me. The day I got my iPad back was the very same day Apple announced the iPad 2. With all the bad taste in my mouth from this Apple seriously has me looking at an Android tablet for my next upgrade. :-(
It's all about the metadata ‚ the track information stored in each media file.
A while back I had this problem with TV Shows ripped from DVD not displaying correctly, or not in the proper sort order, on my iPad. When I compared the metadata for my home-brewed files with those from files of episodes purchased from the the iTunes store, I discovered some differences. The solution that worked for me was to correct the metadata using the info pane for the media files in iTunes.
To get started, open iTunes, select one of the TV episode files that's giving you problems, and press ⌘ + i (or choose Get Info from the file menu).
Start with the Info tab. Ideally your metadata will look something like this, with obvious differences (unless your file happens to be the same episode of The Big Bang Theory):
Note that the track number corresponds to the episode number
Not all devices use the Info metadata for sorting though, your next stop is the Video tab:
Episode ID could also be expressed as S2E8 but I prefer the cleaner, numerical method.
Next, visit the Options tab to confirm that the Media Type is set to TV Show:
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To assure consistency, you can select multiple files and edit common fields, such as Album (in the Info tab) or Show (in the Video tab) all at once.
Finally, it's sometimes useful to make change the criteria that iTunes uses to sort your media. You have guessed by now that the Sorting tab is the key to this operation:
In the example above, alphabetical sorts by episode will place this episode with the L episodes, not in the T's. This is useful for Movies, shows or bands beginning with The.
The laborious process of manually entering metadata for TV Episodes is the main reason for my using iVI to import DVDs.
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That's an iPad 4 box. You can tell it by the ios5 wallapaper. The ipad 2 has a iOS 4 wallpaper.
Your 3rd point is true : Only the iPad 3 have the iCloud logo. Your 4th point if false. iPad 2 have also a silver Apple logo on their boxes.